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Patient's cat has been lethargic for four days. Patient has now watched six TikToks from a woman with no credentials who sells herbal tinctures. Has decided it is 'probably fine.' Will monitor. Will continue to monitor. Will Google the symptoms at 2 AM instead of calling.
Deteriorates with every avoided appointment.
None. The $340 estimate is, apparently, insurmountable.
Patients with Catastrophic Vet-Bill Avoidance Spiral typically present with some or all of the following:
Catastrophic Vet-Bill Avoidance Spiral was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Fuga pecuniae veterinariae — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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